AW: handling NULLS in GiST

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Oleg Bartunov'" <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)stack(dot)net>
Cc: Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: AW: handling NULLS in GiST
Date: 2001-07-16 14:43:10
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA687963368388@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> we noticed you changed gist.c to handle NULLS. It seems there is
> problem with your changes.
....
> I remind we have choosen to leave NULLs because vacuum complained about
> different number of tuples in heap and index and all our opclasses work
> correctly with NULLs. Did you change vacuum code so it will not complain ?

If the opclasses handle NULLs, then they should be in the index.
Leaving them out would imho be better handled with the partial index code.

Andreas

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